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I learned about Radon gas as I'm now working in Real Estate at Diverse Realty.

The gas reacts quickly and when that happens it emits some radio active energy. If you are close by, you will therefore be radiated.

We have found, over time, that a small amount of radiation is good for us. Not only that, we actually emit radiation ourselves. More than what Radon gas in our homes generates.

Actually, a smoke alarm system makes use of a decaying bit of radio active material. Those rays go in all directions for a long time.We channel a certain amount in two specific tubes, one of which is ...

Every single day I receive an email that tells me they visited my website. There is the one for today:

« I recently visited your website and wanted to comment on how nice it looks. »

What I find really interesting is that I manage something like 20 websites and they NEVER tell me which website has a problem. It's like those telemarketers who call you telling you they can fix your credit credit card and immediately tell you there is nothing wrong with it... (you bet, they are always $0 since otherwise you pay a whooping 27%+ interest, who in their right mind would accept such ...

There are so many services out there that will offer you to send text messages on your behalf... that's scary! But all of them use these 3 to 6 digit numbers that have nothing to do with YOU.

What SMS From Me offers is a way to send SMS messages to your prospect directly from YOUR phone. This means it is starting a two way conversation with your leads without any intervention from you until your prospect replies to that first text ...

I wanted to create a website header where a background is a large quadrilatere that ends (bottom) with a triangle. So the top is like a rectangle and the two points at the bottom are not at the same level (one is higher than the other, the Y coordinate are different.)

It took me some time on how to do that without using multiple images or multiple divs, etc. And really to make it work cleanly we need an image as a background.

So the image should be large enough for a full screen desktop (crazy big for some these days, mine was big for a while at 1920x1080, now it's a dwarf, right?! ...

As many of your may be aware, C++11 now offers capabilities related to multi-threading applications. They offer multiple schemes, async and thread.

I would think that async is safe, from what I have seen, but std::thread is not.

Before you call one of your thread object destructor, you must make sure it was stopped. There is a list of the states the thread needs to be in so it does not terminate your process calling a destructor:

it was default-constructed (i.e. no thread was actually started,) as in:

As I am working on a client / server system, I was printing out some info to see where I was getting stuck and noticed that all the messages got mangled really bad.

I was using statements such as:

std::cerr << "got message: "
<< message_name << "\n";

The problem with the implementation of cerr is that it actually prints each part one by one. This means the console gets locked and unlocked many times (which is slow!) and another process may write in between each one of your message chunk.

So, I was wondering how to get the MAC address on an iPad 6. When you first get the device, you HAVE to set it up. That means adding the necessary info for a connection. Up to here, you'd think, not too bad... only you have NO WAY to get the MAC address of the iPad until the connection is setup. Ain't that practical?

Thus I searched using Google and found the best answer ever from a person on the Apple Forum (I do not assume that it is an Apple employee, it may be anyone, obviously...)